Iowa: cities, venues and capacity
Choosing a host city in Iowa: 21 cities covered here, 224 venues between them, and what each one can actually hold.
Kinnick Stadium states the largest capacity in the state. The dots show what event67 would bill at that head count, and where the price stops.
The numbers behind this state
Iowa is a state of United States of about 3.2 million people. Des Moines is the capital.
Across the state the dataset records 22 exhibition or convention halls, 25 dedicated conference and function spaces, 38 arenas and stadiums, 19 theatres and concert halls and 120 independent event spaces.
The largest stated capacity anywhere in the state is 69,250, which is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme here.
- Capital
- Des Moines
- has a guide
- Cities covered
- 21
- 19 with their own guide
- Venues mapped
- 224
- 22 convention or exhibition
One time zone across the whole state: Chicago time (America/Chicago). Publish the schedule in it and nothing else needs saying.
Iowa's headline venues
Ranked by stated capacity, then by how much the record can prove. Open data rarely publishes a capacity for a convention centre, so a hall may sit below an arena here without being the smaller room.
| Venue | City | Type | Stated capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinnick Stadium | Iowa City | stadium | 69,250 |
| Jack Trice Stadium | Ames | stadium | 42,500 |
| Iowa Field | Iowa City | stadium | 30,000 |
| Hanson Field | Burlington | stadium | 17,168 |
| Casey's Center | Des Moines | arena | 16,980 |
| UNI-Dome | Cedar Falls | stadium | 16,324 |
| Carver–Hawkeye Arena | Iowa City | arena | 15,400 |
| James H. Hilton Coliseum | Ames | arena | 15,000 |
| Drake Stadium | Des Moines | stadium | 14,557 |
| Iowa Field House | Iowa City | arena | 13,365 |
| Principal Park | Des Moines | stadium | 11,500 |
| DakotaDome | Sioux City | stadium | 10,000 |
Host cities across Iowa
21 in the dataset, largest first. Each guide covers that city's venues, its airport, its local time and a worked price for an event of that size.
| City | Population | Venues mapped |
|---|---|---|
| Des Moines | 213,096 | 28 |
| Cedar Rapids | 137,904 | 17 |
| Davenport | 100,938 | 21 |
| Sioux City | 86,875 | 19 |
| Ankeny | 76,727 | 3 |
| Iowa City | 76,710 | 13 |
| West Des Moines | 73,664 | 7 |
| Ames | 69,026 | 17 |
| Waterloo | 67,477 | 7 |
| Dubuque | 58,987 | 29 |
| Urbandale | 47,759 | 4 |
| Cedar Falls | 41,417 | 10 |
| Bettendorf | 40,281 | 4 |
| Mason City | 26,948 | 8 |
| Ottumwa | 25,648 | 6 |
| Burlington | 23,637 | 10 |
| Muscatine | 23,298 | 1 |
| Indianola | 16,297 | 6 |
| Newton | 15,709 | 8 |
Also in Iowa, with nothing mapped yet to build a guide from: Council Bluffs and Afton. They appear here rather than as pages with three facts on them.
Pricing a Iowa programme
A Iowa programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, the largest stated capacity in the Iowa dataset — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 950activated attendees
- billable, after the free 50
- 900billable, after the free 50
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $4,500for the whole event, at $5 each
Where this data comes from
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- Administrative attributes and the population figure from Wikidata, CC0 (Wikidata (P1082)).
- City populations are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Which Iowa city is best for a conference?
It depends on how many people you need to seat and how they arrive. Des Moines has the deepest venue list in this state. The table above ranks every covered city by how many venues are mapped in it, which is the closest proxy to choice you will get before you start calling.
How many event venues are there in Iowa?
224 venues across 21 cities are mapped in this dataset, of which 22 are convention, exhibition or conference facilities. That is what open data records, not a complete registry — small function rooms inside hotels and community buildings are consistently under-mapped everywhere.
What does event67 cost for a Iowa event?
950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
What is the biggest venue in Iowa?
Kinnick Stadium, at a stated 69,250. That is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme anywhere in the state; above it you are splitting the audience across buildings or looking outside Iowa.
Keep reading
Start with a city
- Hosting an event in Des Moines
28 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Cedar Rapids
17 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Davenport
21 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Sioux City
19 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Ankeny
3 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Iowa City
13 venues mapped
Running something in Iowa?
Pick the city, then let the app do the schedule, the invites and the arrivals. Free for your first 50 activated attendees.